Sour water stripper (SWS) units in refinery operations are often exposed to several challenges, such as corrosion, low ...

Irving Oil Ltd.'s recent refinery upgrade project in Saint John, NB, commercialized CDTech's CDHydro and CDHDS technologies for selective desulfurization of FCC gasoline.

The first trays equipped with UFM AF valves were successfully installed in the stripping section of a crude column more than five years ago. Today, there are more than 60 columns equipped with UFM AF ...

Roger Stokes and Michael Moosemiller outline the safety issues associated with conventional distillation towers and consider how newer technologies might behave differently with respect to safety ...

We have been operating refineries since 1965, yet we can’t make a distillation tray, which is the fundamental component in petroleum refining. See those columns in see at the refinery, inside is mere ...

Energy-intensity reductions of up to 90% are reported in the literature. Heat pumps work very well for columns that do not have a large temperature difference between the top and bottom of the column.

Dividing wall columns promise significant energy and cost savings compared to multiple binary distillation columns. Robert Piszczek, Michael Hergenrother, Zhongcheng Wang, and Gabriel Nahigian of ...

And fun.” The year after I started working at Saint Mary’s, Sister O’Kelley decided to retire. I was asked to teach the figure drawing classes she had taught for decades. Maybe this was a gateway to ...

Meanwhile, the refinery transaction — or non-transaction — played a part of a lawsuit between current and former officials at Jamaica-based West Indies Petroleum. Also in June, Limetree Bay Terminals ...